Bloodlands : Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

from mrafael

This is an awesome work that place the context of industrialization and corrupt democracy around the greatest villains of 1930s: Stalin and Hitler. It is surprising in how the evidence accumulates against Stalin as Hitler's role model. The crime against the Ukrainian people in the contrived starv...

from epersonae

Intense and disturbing look at eastern Europe 1933-1946: "I wish to test the proposition that deliberate and direct mass murder by these two regimes in the bloodlands is a distinct phenomenon worthy of separate treatment" - by "the bloodlands", referring a region encompassing pre-1939 Poland, Ukr...

from rivkat

The history of mass killings in the lands between Soviet Russia and Germany in the run-up to and during World War II, where Stalin and Hitler oversaw the slaughter of millions of people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, often by the thousands at once. Snyder emphasizes the length of the devast...

from br77rino

Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus were the scene of mind-boggling levels of human destruction, and Mr. Snyder describes it all in almost excessive detail. Reminded me of "The Great Hunger" which was about the Irish Potato Famine.

from geza.tatrallyay

A history book I could not put down. Tells the story of the atrocities committed by both Hitler's Nazis and Stalin's Communists in the buffer countries of especially Poland and the Ukraine, but also the Baltics, Romania and other Eastern European countries. A must read for anyone who wants to und...